Yokai Watch is the latest Japanese game I've switched to. Got it very cheap presumably because an Amazon seller realized too late that importing already-localized games for a region locked system without an English language option is a pretty awful business strategy.

In the last month I finished Phoenix Wright: Spirit of Justice, then hit Mario Galaxy 2. Was going to start Metroid Prime 3 but my disc is bad apparently so I jumped back to Mario Galaxy 1 to finish it with Luigi. Been on a nice Nintendo kick.

I'm playing through Star Allies with a co-op group. It's one of those games that's almost entirely dependent on having the right group of friends for it - we're having a good time, but it couldn't hold my interest long enough to even finish the demo in single player.

Also dabbling in Voez again on my own. It's a really good rhythm game that I'd like a lot more if the progression unlocks made any sense. They're basically just a cycle of "get X [S/A/B/C] ranks on N [easy/hard/special] songs", except that, where you would logically expect the cycle to run through X, then N, then the difficulty, it goes backwards and doesn't credit you for playing at higher difficulty. You get a sequence of difficulty spikes and cliffs generally moving upwards instead of a smooth progression.

I quit this one recently. Finally got sick of grinding for orbs only to get trash pulls.

I'm okay with trash pulls (though almost every unit has a skill that can be inherited or such). I play for the instant strategy and seeing hopeless fights turn into sudden victories (mostly because of AI nonsense, but also because of my own tactical choices).

^ I don't understand what the events are or how they work. Sure, story mode is simple enough but the rest isn't self-explanatory. I did skip past the tutorials though so I guess that's my fault, but it blasts you with information.

Mario Odyssey. I was finishing up the ice world but got distracted going back to the dinosaur one. These worlds don't seem too much bigger than even Mario 64's but they are much more densely pack with activity, although they feel less organic due to that. Regardless, it is drawing me in more each time.